dandb, to logitech
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I've been using the for about two years now.

I really like the low-profile design, the base is really solid, no connection issues, everything works as expected.

The only real problem with this thing is the keycaps. I just broke one by accidentally popping it off. They have these flimsy plastic clips that keep them in the place, and I just knew one would break sooner or later.

Also the black coating has started to wear off on common keys.

ellie, to mechanicalkeyboards
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this thingy is cool!

borrowing from a friend right now to compare it with my moonlander, but I like how small it is.

I think I prefer it, but will know for sure in a couple weeks

(it's a ZSA voyager)

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xtaran, to keyboards
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happend! @mwichary's impressive book about and today arrived here, too. 🤩 meets

A book slipcase with a black and white photography of some blank key caps.
Front view of the Shift Happens slipcase withe two thick and one thinner orange book inside. The two thicker books have beige key caps with legends 1 and 2 as label for volume 1 and 2. There's also a thin, stapled leaflet on the very right end of the slipcase visible.
Black and white cover of Shift Happens volume 1, showing a woman sitting in front of a typing device from probably the 50s.

neverpanic, to mechanicalkeyboards
@neverpanic@chaos.social avatar

New keyboard, looking forward to building it after work. Feels very heavy compared to my plastic Keychron K8 Pro.

dhry, to mechanicalkeyboards
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chaotin, to keyboard
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Some of you asked for keyboard porn :cch: :key_bananasplits: :key_lavender:

Akko MG108B Taro Purple (V3 Cream Yellow Pro Switches). Feels amazing while typing. Camera unfortunately doesn’t show the true colour too well though, it’s a lot less grey than it looks.

#keyboard #mechanicalkeyboard

Closeup of shift and enter keys and surrounding area
Purple keyboard with LED lights closeup of left side
Purple keyboard with LED lights close up of the numpad

elmo, to mechanicalkeyboards

Had this unbuilt keyboard prototype lying around for way over a year now.

Fully finished PCB with working firmware and everything.
Most of the parts for the case already 3D printed out just waiting for assembly (only thing missing is the switch backplate)...

I even got really nice looking color matching keycaps for it.

One of those projects I guess 😶
I should probably finish it...

Photo of a 3D printed ergonomic keyboard case without any internals. The case is printed out of a dark gray colored slightly silverish and translucent filament.

rubenwardy, to keyboard
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This sushi tastes strange

dhry, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Post your daily driver keeb. Doesn’t have to be mechanical. Here’s mine (minus the artisans, they’re just window-dressing whenever I take it to meetups). #Mechanicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #mechkeys

dhry, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Another fun Vietnamese artisan #keycap. #Mechanicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #mechkeys

ClickClackHack, to mechanicalkeyboards

seems to be cool and a new experience 🤔

#mechanicalkeyboard #projects #diy #prototype

tylerknowsnothing, to VideoGames
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I may not be a fan of mechanical keyboards, but I know a lot of people are. Besides, I do have one, but I use my Logitech MX Keys for Mac to write. (And no, I have NOT seen any improvement in my gaming experience using my Keychron K5 SE.) If you love these things, and dig the Nintendo vibe, check out 8-bitDo's lovely Famicom and NES inspired gaming boards, reportedly at their lowest prices ever. https://www.engadget.com/8bitdos-nintendo-inspired-retro-mechanical-keyboard-is-cheaper-than-ever-right-now-173936701.html

wjrii, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Just finished up this one. No-stabilizers, handwired custom 98% layout. 3D printed case and feet, plate laser cut from 3.2mm Masonite, blank XDA laser dye-subbed in a Josefin Sans Medium font. Not exactly professional fit and finish, but it types nice with Box Jades, and ZERO STAB RATTLE! ZERO!!!

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

#mechanicalkeyboard #mechanicalkeyboards

derekdahlsad, to retrocomputing

Happy birthday, my thirty year old clicky-clacky keyboard! #retrocomputing #ibm #mechanicalkeyboard #clickyclacky

(I keep it mostly for sentimental reasons, sadly I don't actively use it)

An M Type mechanical keyboard made for IBM by Lexmark in 1994.

apfel, to mechanicalkeyboards

Final iteration of the Padavan keyboard, my normalest borb :)

#mechanicalkeyboard #mechanicalkeyboards #40s

Angled top/front view of the Padavan keyboard with 3dp case. It's a Minivan layout plus arrows and a small numpad. 4 rows, 12.75u main cluster, exploded spacebar and arrows, 11-key numpad. The case is a rosy pastel color.
Angled front/side view of the Padavan keyboard with 3dp case. It's a Minivan layout plus arrows and a small numpad. 4 rows, 12.75u main cluster, exploded spacebar and arrows, 11-key numpad. The case is a rosy pastel color.
Top view of the Padavan keyboard with 3dp case. It's a Minivan layout plus arrows and a small numpad. 4 rows, 12.75u main cluster, exploded spacebar and arrows, 11-key numpad. The case is a rosy pastel color.

petejohanson, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Happy to all you users!

We've got:

  1. Blank Slate wireless ortho, with KAT Mizu keycaps, lubed Akko CS Lavender switches, in the Drop high profile Planck case

  2. Technikable low profile wireless ortho, with choc whites switches and MBK legend keycaps in the Ultem color polycarbonate Technik case

  3. Le Capybara split column stagger, with 45g KLC domes, no silencer rings, and MT3 Operator keycaps, in a 3dp Sporkus case.

All naturally running @zmk

12x4 low profile ortholinear keyboard with HHKB style blockers on the bottom row. Grey and white keycaps with a red 2u accent thumb. Around the keyboard on the desk are various electronic components and tools, e.g. a multimeter.
34 key unibody split keyboard with white keycaps with grey and purple accent keys, in a galaxy black case, resting on a small light brown knitted mat.

amokleben, to mechanicalkeyboards

Happy #40sday!

Q-Saver 3DP case with QEZBerry inside.
#mechanicalkeyboard

opendev, to mechanicalkeyboards

Happy #40sDay!

A showcase of my favorite boards.

edit: added more information for every keyboard in image description

Three Keyboards on a desk mat. At the left side a Banime40 Keyboard, on the right a Yiffre Keyboard and at the bottom a Monorail Keyboard. - Banime40 Banime40 PCB by sporewoh, Case by sporewoh, Boba U4 switches, MT3 /dev/tty R3 keycaps - Yiffre Yiffre PCB by yussufacik, Case by Communitymember, Invokeys Daydreamer switches, MT3 Susuwatari keycaps - Monorail Monorail PCB Jet-Layout with Case by Kiser, Durock Shrimp switches, KAM Superuser keycaps

markstos, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Some fans are celebrating the 40th day of year with and photos of their keyboards that are 40% or less the size of a full size keeb.

Here’s my Unicorne by Boardsource and a custom cable by MechCables. Each half of the keyboard includes a joystick.

The keyboard layout is described here: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/

https://fosstodon.org/@petejohanson/111902713748820621

xtaran, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Happy !

My favourite ≤ 40% keyboards:

  1. custom (world's smallest 😉) in fluorescent acrylic with (bought from Drop)

  2. (bought from ) with SA

  3. () with GMK — IMHO the most usable 40%

  4. (sub-30% bought from WorldspawnsKeebs on Etsy) with GMK Pulse (from Drop)

Thanks to @petejohanson for the idea!

A Zlant keyboard (designed by Ziptyze and sold by 1UpKeyboards) with SA Vilebloom as keycap set. The keyboard has a uniform stagger, i.e. every row of keys has an offset of ¼ key width to the next row, hence filling the gap between ortholinear and classic staggered keyboard layouts. It's a keyboard just consisting of three layers of white PCB material, but it has no frame so you nearly don't see anything of it in this top-down shot. The keycaps show a (stepped) gradient slanted in the opposite direction as the keyboard's rows are slanted. Left side is navy blue on pale yellow, then there are two columns white on salmon pink, then one row white on old rose, and the right side including the 2u space bar is all white on navy blue.
A Minivan keyboard from TheVanKeyboards (TVK) with aluminum frame and the GMK Paperwork (design IIRC also from TVK) keycap set. Most of the keycaps are medium grey on light grey with the cursor keys having a slightly darker light grey as base color. Tab, Shift, Enter Backspace, one the two short spacebars and the menu key have inverse colors (light grey on medium grey). The for bottom left keycaps have the base colors yellow, cyan, purple and green with legends in a darker tone of the same color. These colors are reminiscent of neon markers on recycling paper with a checked pattern. Black background.
An Alpha keyboard, designed by PyrooL and sold by WorldspawnKeebs. As "Alpha" is a very ambiguous name, many call it Alpha28 as it only has 28 keys: 26 "alpha" keys (hence probably the original name), a 2u spacebar and a key left of the L key which can be used as layer switch key or Enter key, … The keyboard has a half-ortholinear and half-staggered layout consisting of just three rows of keys. The two upper key rows have each 10 1u keys and are ortholinear to each other and contain the letters QWERTYUIOP, ASDFGHJKL and a key labeled "Data". The bottom row has 7 1u keys (ZXCV and BNM) and a 2u space bar between V and B. It's a keyboard just consisting of one layer of white PCB material and two layers of transparent acrylic, so you nearly see anything of the "case" in this top-down shot. The keycap set is GMK Pulse Mitolet, i.e. cyan on purple. It's sitting on a sun-lit sandstone window sill.

thpoll, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Did I mention that the can do Emojis..?

dhry, to mechanicalkeyboards
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DSA Scrabble keycap set. https://drop.com/buy/scrabble-kits?defaultSelectionIds=983688#imagecarousel

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geillescas, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Finally my #Dygma Defy arrived! I immediately changed the switches for some U4T's because #thock

Next up: some GMK action

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DeltaManiac, to keyboard

Anyone here using a split ergo #keyboard?
Was thinking of building one, but confused between corneV2 and Lily58 pro. How has your experience been with those boards?
#mechanicalkeyboard #ergonomickeyboard

Theeo123, to keyboard
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